People:
Hayato(1st Gym Leader)= Falkner
Prof. Utsugi= Prof. Elm

Places:
Wakaba Town= New Bark Town
Yoshino City= Cherrygrove City
Kikyou City= Violet City
Bellsprout Tower= Sprout Tower

Items:
Squirtle Water= Squirtbottle

Pokemon:
(these are now official names)
Guraigaa = Gligar
Hanekko= Hopip
Hassamu= Scizor

And if you didn't already know, Pokemon Crystal is coming out. Supposedly you can choose to be a male or female trainer. You can use a new Cell phone adapter thingy to trade and battle. And it will be compatible with Pokemon Stadium G/S(what about Pokemon Pikachu Color?)

All in all sounds cool.... I still hate those names for G/S, they sound so uncreative(unlike the first ones, like Scyther and such) Well, that is all for now... *can hardly wait till G/S comes out*

Heh, Crystal looks cool...I might actually import that...unlike G/S which I said I wouldn't, but broke down and did anyway...

Why can I picture a future battle a tour stop going like this:

Me: *sends out Hassamu, kid sends out, um, Burakki*

Kid: OOOOOOOH! A SKI-SOAR! UMBEEOWN RETURN! GO HOUNDBROOM!

Me: *gets bad feeling, Hassamu DTs*

Kid: *Hellgar Fire Blasts, hits, maybe, who cares for this demonstration*

Me: *DTs*

Rinse, repeat, Hassamu making up to six DTs, then SDing up, then Continual Cuts/Steel Wings his entire team into the ground

Kid: YOU CHEATER! SKI-SOAR CAN'T BEAT HOUNDBROOM, UMBREEOWN, AND STEAL-LICKS BYE ITSELF! *cries*

Heh, a whole round a trouble is coming...

-Rain Dance

Yeah, would've been nice for them to stoop to Digimon's creativity level. Anyone know where the name "Umbreon" comes from? I know ESPeon comes from ESP (Extra-Sensory Perception).

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Originally posted by White Cat:

Anyone know where the name "Umbreon" comes from? I know ESPeon comes from ESP (Extra-Sensory Perception).

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I looked this up a while back.

Umbreon stems from the word, "umbra." An umbra is

1. The completely shaded area where all of the direct light from a luminous body is cut off, as in an eclipse of the sun or moon.

2. the dark inner part (nucleus) of a sunspot

3. obsolete shade; shadow

Cool. Eat that, Devimon!

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Never kick a man when he's down, he might get back up again.

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Originally posted by Psybro:
I thought Umbreon's name came from the word 'umbrage', meaning 'to take offence' or something like that.

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::shrugs:: Who knows what the programmers were thinking when they came up with the name? Personally I think White Cat's guess makes much more sense.

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"In fact, if you'll look back to where this originated, it's in Azure's attempt to "get a good laugh" out of TPM. Now how mature is that?" - Dodrio, posted on Azure Heights

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Originally posted by Starshelle:
::shrugs:: Who knows what the programmers were thinking when they came up with the name? Personally I think White Cat's guess makes much more sense.

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White Cat's guess?

I agree that Burakki sounds cooler, even if it was just a mispronounced version of "Blacky" (a valid dog name, methinks), but I can't say I view "Blackeon" as very original...

Sorry if I offended... I agree that the net of the names are somewhat uncreative. I'll give them a couple months before I decide whether I think they are gay or not.

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-cfalcon

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Originally posted by PikachuThunder:
White Cat's guess?

[This message has been edited by PikachuThunder (edited 09-03-2000).]

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Whoops!! Sorry PT! You orginally posted that not White Cat. My mistake White Cat quoted what you said, and I just happened to misread it and gave credit to the wrong person. Sorry 'bout that!